Only because it is being run by a "user" on a huge HP-UX network who cannot get anything installed on the server without jumping through hoop after hoop after hoop after... that is why the requirement of default installation. If I could reliably have him put the ReadKey.pm module in the current directory that would be great, but I tried that and apparently it needs "something else" to make it work. Otherwise I'd just send that module with my code and be done with it. :) Since this is my very first post here I am unaware of the "pissy" things that set people off. I will be more careful in the future...